Paul Newman Quotes
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I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.
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Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
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It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
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Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other... You can't spend a lifetime breathing down each other's necks... We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.
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From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.
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If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'
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If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.
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Watching something is nothing like doing it.
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The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.
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You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.
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Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.
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It's been a privilege to be here.
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So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.
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I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.
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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.
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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.
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I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
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People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
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...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'"
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Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.
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The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.
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Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.
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What we got here is a failure to communicate.